Sudden cardiac death in pediatric cardiomyopathy: the importance of well-designed population-based studies

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¹ Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: rossanoj@email.chop.edu.
² Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Joseph W Rossano et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015.

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. 2015 Jun 2;65(21):2311-3.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.04.004.

¹ Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: rossanoj@email.chop.edu.
² Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Keywords: cardiomyopathy; epidemiology; pediatric; sudden death.

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